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💃 Ecstatic Dance Troy + Grounding Sound Bath Ecstatic Dance Troy is an invitation to move your body, open your heart, and step joyfully into new beginnings, together, in motion. Ready to shake off stress, awaken your life force, and dance your gratitude forward? RSVP HERE: https://shorturl.at/MNdjT This special Ecstatic Dance Troy gathering is a full-bodied journey featuring: 🎤 A guided embodied warm-up 🎶 A deep, high-vibe Ecstatic Dance DJ set 🔔 A grounding sound bath to integrate and return to center To close our session, sound healing practitioner Andrea Williams will guide you through a 15-minute grounding sound bath designed to gently transition you from movement into stillness. Using the root chakra crystal bowl, gong, shruti box, and voice, this experience brings your awareness back to the earth, supporting nervous system regulation, integration, and deep presence. Expect a dance floor where you can stretch, swirl, stomp, release, and celebrate, whether your expression is quiet, wild, tender, or fierce. 💃🕺 📍 EVENT DETAILS WHEN: Apr 26 | 12:00–2:00 PM 🗓️ Happens every last Sunday of the month | 12:00–2:00 PM WHERE: Fellowship Hall at Christ Church 35 State Street, Troy, NY PARKING: FREE parking around the corner at: 1713 5th Ave Parking Garage, Troy, NY 🎟️ PRICING (2026) EARLY BIRD – $18 (up to 1 week before) ADVANCE GROOVE – $25 DAY-OF GROOVE - $33 🌀 FLOW OF THE DANCE 12:00 – 12:15 PM Arrive, settle in, feel the room 12:15 – 12:25 PM Opening the space together 12:25 – 12:35 PM 🔥 Warm-Up: Somatic Shaking with Isha A guided 10-minute somatic shaking practice to release tension, awaken the body, and drop into embodied presence. 12:35 – 1:35 PM 🎶 Ecstatic Dance with DJ ISHA A freeform, expressive journey through organic house, Afro rhythms, world beats, and soulful soundscapes. 1:35 – 1:55 PM 🔔 Grounding Sound Bath with Andrea Williams A deeply calming integration using crystal bowls, gong, shruti box, and voice to bring the body into rooted stillness and nervous system reset. 1:55 – 2:00 PM Closing circle & sweet send-off 💛 COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS • Be Present – no phones or cameras • Embodiment – no talking on the dance floor • Clear Mind – sober space • Consent Always – eye contact & a clear “YES” • Grounding – barefoot encouraged • Freedom – dance how you want ABOUT YOUR GUIDES 🌈 Isha Justyna Kostek is a facilitator of movement, music, and embodied transformation. A certified OSHO Active Meditation facilitator and sound healer trained in India, she is the founder of abunDANCE, blending somatic release, ecstatic movement, and ritual to awaken joy, presence, and abundance. With a background in theater, trauma-informed healing, and equine-assisted work, Isha creates spaces that are playful, grounded, and deeply human, where people feel safe to express, release, and reconnect. Since 2024, she has been leading Ecstatic Dance Oneonta and Ecstatic Dance Enjoy Troy, igniting dance floors with soul-stirring journeys that honor both depth and delight. When she’s not DJing or dancing barefoot, she’s likely with horses, listening closely to what the body and the moment are asking for. She hosts Equine Assisted Personal Development Workshops with Fire Horse Healing. 🌈 Andrea Williams, PhD, a certified sound healing practitioner and deep listening coach, has been creating comfortable and compassionate spaces for restoration, creativity, and healing for communities for the last 20 years through various modalities, including yoga, immersive soundscapes, and soundwalks that encourage listening to the world around us and internally to ourselves. She has performed at yoga studios, galleries, and museums worldwide. She obtained her PhD in Electronic Arts at RPI, where she co-taught Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros. Her sound healing practice, Resonant Beings, was founded in 2018, and it includes 1:1 sessions and sound bath events that focus on providing a safe space for deeply restful rejuvenation and a re-tuning of our bodies. www.resonant-beings.com 🌱 ACCESSIBILITY & CARE • Sober event • Kid-friendly | All ages welcome Produced by Just More Theatre Inc. (501c3 nonprofit) ✨ Come to reconnect ✨ Come to release ✨ Come to dance your gratitude into what’s next Let’s dance, give, and begin again—together.